Books
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A History of Pi, Petr Beckmann (ISBN 978-0312381851, St Martin’s Press)
(a history of) Pi first came out in 1970 and the author was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado. Beckmann fled Czechoslovakia at the age of 14 to escape the Nazis. In the introduction Beckmann states that he could write his own personal history of pi without having to worry about…
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Familiar Words From 1974
I started reading {a history of} π again yesterday. I read this some 12 years ago but wanted to read it again as I am going through some algebra fundamentals helping my daughter with her math exams. Almost 50 years ago, in the preface to the third edition from 1974 author Petr Beckmann wrote the…
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Genius. The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick (ISBN 978-0679747048, Vintage)
After having reread the collected Feynman anecdotes from Surely You’re Joking and What do you care ? in the Classic Feynman edition I wanted to reread this biography by James Gleick again. The main reason being that the anecdotes focus on stories that happened to Feynman leaving out most of the science. Originally I read…
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling (ISBN 978-1408855676, Bloomsbury)
The third Harry Potter book. As you probably know each Potter book follows Harry during a year at Hogwarts school of Magic. So, in book 1 he was 11 years old and going to his first year. In The Prisoner of Azkaban we meet Harry during the summer at his uncle and aunt awaiting the…
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Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton (ISBN 978-0393061321, W. W. Norton & Company)
This 500+ pages book contains all the stories from Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman and What do you care what other people think. If you have already read these 2 books and maybe own them then there is not much new. Unless you are a true fan. There is a foreword by Freeman Dyson and…
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What do you care what other people think, Richard Feynman (ISBN 978-0393355642, W. W. Norton & Company)
This is the follow up of the bestselling Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman. It is quite a bit thinner, only 230 pages or so and of a different nature. Where Surely You’re Joking had a lot of relatively short funny stories with Feynman playing the ‘comedian’ this book is a lot more serious in tone.…
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Philips Natlab. Kraamkamer van ASML, NXP en de CD, Paul van Gerven (ISBN 978-082707410, Techwatch Books)
Ik kwam dit boek toevallig tegen in een artikel en heb het gelijk gekocht vanwege de link van Natlab met ASML. Het is een kleine 400 pagina’s dik maar ik heb het deze week voor de tweede keer gelezen en het was in 4 dagen uit. Voor wie interesse heeft in technologie uit de lage…
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Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman. Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman (ISBN 978-0393355628, W. W. Norton)
I read this book in a Dutch translation a long time ago. And last week, looking for some light reading in the ‘scientific’ section I picked this up from the shelf. I had bought the English edition a few months back as I had given the Dutch translation to my daughter. I figured it was…
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Van de reis. De kermis, het circus en de mensen, Jan Weerts (ISBN 978-9068686746, Uitgeverij Thoth)
Van de reis.Dit fotoboek van Jac Weerts is uitgekomen in maart 2015 en is een documentair boek met een aantal korte stukjes van mensen die ‘het milieu’ kennen. Jan Weerts was zelf jarenlang onderweg met circus en kermis als leerkracht van de rijdende school. Deze organisatie in Nederland zorgt voor lessen op locatie voor kinderen…
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At home with books : How book lovers live and care for their libraries, Estelle Ellis (ISBN 978-0500016848, Gardners Books)
What a treasure this book is ! I read it years ago when it was first published and now recently again as I came across it when browsing through the shelves of our library. If you have a love for books and sometimes hesitate to buy a new one because you are running out of…
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